“Jane and the Year Without a Summer,” by Stephanie Barron (Soho Crime) Jane and the Year Without Summer by Stephanie Baron (Soho Crime) Ah, here is the excellent Miss Jane Austen, who is so obliging as to offer intelligence of an admirable new mystery. Do not be troubling yourself, dear reader. Miss Austen has been over-particular in her intentions to secure a favorable result. Well, you get it. Denver author Stephanie Barron (who will be signing books at the Tattered Cover soon; see details below) has written another of her charming Jane Austen mysteries. In “Jane and the Year Without a Summer” (1816), Jane and her sister, Cassandra, journey to Cheltenham to take the waters in hopes of treating Jane’s ailments. (Barron concludes that Jane suffers from Addison’s disease, which was unrecognized at the time.) Treatments pretty much consist of resting and drinking foul-tasting water. A doctor blames Jane’s poor health on her spinsterhood because “the uterus is to blame for every kind of affliction common to your sex, Miss Austen — nervous complaints, lassitude, strong hysterics, a dangerous desire for excessive learning.” No surprise Jane doesn’t like him. The two sisters take rooms at Mrs.